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Furok said:

Parry or not?

I want to tell you guys about some feature.
Maybe a lot of players was sad, when his mighty blow with heavy weapon equipped on high leveled hero who was mounted on fastest horse was simply parried with thin little short sword or light spear. And this bastard was absolutely safe after your mighty hit. Isn't it?
It's a bad side of MnB I think.
But we have solution! And maybe you'll like it.

The idea is to make weapon with duability. The only one way to loose durability of weapon(at this moment at least) it blocking enemy's attacks with this weapon.
If durability is lower than 0 you can't use this weapon until next battle(or next stage of battle). After battle any of your broken weapon are new and ready to use again.

Why we need this system?
So. in vanila or some historic mods balance between factions units was generally same.
The main difference between our mod and others is the huge difference between characteristics and sizes of weapons and other things. And it looks funny when peasant with sickle are parry crusher's blow with giant war scythe. And more funny that he can do it many times. Endless.

With destructable (not forever) weapons we remove this problem.
Also we make fight more dangerous and more warhammerish look. With crushing blows.Broken swords and cutted shafts of spears and halberds.
It makes tactic and style of equipment  more deep and more intelligent.

Please don't exaggerate the message. Sure your sword will not make self-destruction with any attack he parry. But weak weapon will be destructed with few of hits by mighty weapon. And inversly. You can parry peasants attacks a thousand times with your high-quality sword made by dwarfs.
If you fighting in long battle and use you weapon to defend yourself, taking hard and mighty hits - after some time it will broken.
When you will be overpowered and best equipped weak and middle enemies will be crushed by your one hit.

So, it's a first of all the question of BALANCE.

P.S. Nobody prohibit you to use good shield or two.
P.P.S. Grammatical side is not my strong side.
P.P.P.S. Don't worry about units, who can stay without any melee weapon after desctuction of their main melee weapon. They all will have alternative weapons(details too big so just trust me).


It will make gameplay more fatal looking and hard-edged. And will bring new level of equipment plannig. It's my opinion.
Your opinions?

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Ezhik-iz-Tumana said:

There is an another idea of MP-challenge.

Teams starts from the fortified camps located in different parts of the map. The main task - to collect the most number of warpstone's pieces that are scattered across the map, or vice versa this is one huge warpstone located in crater. By the way there is a time limit - something about 15 or 20 minutes.
Players should bring a warpstone's shards in repository of camp as many as they can carry (from 1 piece to 5). Warpstone cause damage to health when character carrying it, and damage as heavy as many shards player carrying. If he dies, shards remain on the place of his death and lighting, so shards are visible and can be collected by other players.

There are NPC-traders in the camp presented alchemist, blacksmith, stableman and condottiere. Alternatively, it could be an only merchant in the camp, which will be presented to all the assorted goods.
There are also several mines and farms that players can take to open access to more advanced things at the NPC in the camp.

Alchemist sells players healing potions and salves. Potion cure N health instantly. Salve cure full HP but for the N period of time. Each potion or salve takes one weapon slot.
Blacksmith sells weapons and armor. Than more mines has been captured, then more advanced weapons and armor are available for sale.
Stableman sells horses. Than more farms has been captured, then more rapid and agile horses are available for sale. Also, than more mines has been captured, then horses are more armored.
Condottiere selling the services of mercenaries. Each player can hire units of various specializations (melee fighters, skirmishers, horsemen). Each type of mercenary claiming the number of captured mines and farms, so than more of these objects has been captured, then stronger mercenaries are available for hiring.
Besides it's possible to make procedure of warpstone's collecting more difficult by adding skeletons' squads around of warstone. So than more team collected shards, than more waves will come to the camp. During game progress skeletons become stronger.

So this MP-challenge is some sort of tactics, RPG and slasher.

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